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Haven't read the page yet but the header image struck me as interesting. "Molex to SATA, lose all your data" was drilled into my head at an early job and appears to be what's depicted there. If your disks are set up in a similar way, you might have a very immediate need for a good backup script :)
Too complicated to even try to read. Rsync is great but I've switched to Borg for backups. Borg isn't perfect but it is a higher level approach to backups, as it were. Hetzner recently dropped the price of their Storage Box backup product to about 2 euro per TB per month, and Borg works nicely with it. Borg encrypts all the backup contents and conceals the metadata on the backup server, and yet you can (with the encr…
Then I moved to Borg and haven't looked back. It does the same end goal in a better way, is way faster, and easier to work with overall [2].
[1]: https://nuxx.net/blog/2009/12/06/time-machine-for-freebsd/ [2]: https://nuxx.net/blog/2019/11/10/using-borg-for-backing-up-n...
The first two lines of the script are already wrong; #!/bin/bash Should be: #!/usr/bin/env bash set -euo pipefail That’s table stakes for any bash script. With the first piece, exit on error, being critically important.
I wish this misguided notion regarding "inofficial strict mode" would go away, as `set -e` is suboptimal (and can be very tedious to deal with on top of that): https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105 It makes sense to opt into errexit for select blocks/sections in scripts and under certain circumstances, but having it default-on is a recipe for quite a bit of head-scratching in the future.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Timers
EDIT: I'd love to hear if anyone knows of any downsides, edge cases for running rsync under systemd timers.
Too complicated to even try to read. Rsync is great but I've switched to Borg for backups. Borg isn't perfect but it is a higher level approach to backups, as it were. Hetzner recently dropped the price of their Storage Box backup product to about 2 euro per TB per month, and Borg works nicely with it. Borg encrypts all the backup contents and conceals the metadata on the backup server, and yet you can (with the encr…
Now all I need is better client side software for these things, something I could use on my moms computer. Vorta is not that good, although I commend the effort.
Until the UI side is sorted, my moms laptop stays on Backblaze.
rsnapshot[1] is what I used on FreeBSD with a snapshot. It is like a well-tested version of the author's rsync and ssh blog post. I have a blog post here[2] describing my setup. It saved my bacon multiple times. Also, rsnapshot works in pull mode, so no client is needed on my Linux/macOS desktop or server except ssh and rsync. [1] https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot [2] https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-install-…
Yep. We use rsnapshot with btrfs snapshots on Debian / Ubuntu. You can set up multiple generations easily. Efficient storage using hard links. Very reliable.
Haven't read the page yet but the header image struck me as interesting. "Molex to SATA, lose all your data" was drilled into my head at an early job and appears to be what's depicted there. If your disks are set up in a similar way, you might have a very immediate need for a good backup script :)
did your guys use shitty injection molded connectors that melted or is there another reason?
rsnapshot[1] is what I used on FreeBSD with a snapshot. It is like a well-tested version of the author's rsync and ssh blog post. I have a blog post here[2] describing my setup. It saved my bacon multiple times. Also, rsnapshot works in pull mode, so no client is needed on my Linux/macOS desktop or server except ssh and rsync. [1] https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot [2] https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-install-…
Yep. We use rsnapshot with btrfs snapshots on Debian / Ubuntu. You can set up multiple generations easily. Efficient storage using hard links. Very reliable.